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A Portrait of the Bookseller as a Young Man and Woman - A Photography Exhibition at the 55th Stuttgart Antiquarian Book Fair

The Stuttgart Antiquarian Book Fair is one of the oldest fairs of this kind worldwide. Founded in 1962 and shortly after the first antiquarian book fair in London, it now looks back to 55 successful years of existence.

Exactly thirty years ago, an exciting experiment – a mixture between art performance and historical documentation – took place at the Stuttgart Fair. In 1985, the German photographer Joachim W. Siener set up a photo studio at the fair, and among all the books and business he took portraits of all the 80 exhibitors during the four book fair days. Siener used a special high-format technique of time exposure which had been developed by the photographers of the 1920s with the effect that the pictures have a high artistic quality. They look vivid and “out of life” – like movie stills.

Some of them belong to the grand old times of the trade, some have long inherited their companies to the next generations (who are now exhibiting in Stuttgart), and many others, who were newcomers in 1985, have long become well-known members of the international antiquarian book business.

A Portrait of the Bookseller as a Young Man and Woman - this special photography exhibition during the 55th Stuttgart Antiquarian Book Fair from 29 to 31 January 2016 allows close encounters with the history of the trade, with some of its famous protagonists and, maybe, even with yourself.

A Portrait of the Bookseller as a Young Man and Woman – Portraits by Joachim Siener

Photography Exhibition at the Stuttgart Antiquarian Book Fair

A special catalogue including 60 selected photographs (with biographies) and two histories of the Stuttgart Fair written from the perspectives of an historian and of a long-time visitor will be published:

SCHEELE, Carl Wilhelm

Upsala & Leipzig Magn. Swederus. zu finden bey S.L. Crusius 1777. - 8vo, 3 ff., 16, 155, (1) pp. Engraved vignette on title & one folding engraved plate, both depicting chemical apparatus. Bound with:BERGMANN, Torbern. Anleitung zu Vorlesungen über die Beschaffenheit und den Nutzen der Chemie, und die allgemeinsten Verschiedenheiten natürlicher Körper. Aus d. Schwedischen übersetzt. Stockholm and Leipzig, Swederus. 1779. 8vo, 95, (3 blank) pp. Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek and Berlin records call for xxxi preliminary pages as well as 95 numbered pages. Utrecht, Union Catalog Hesse, Bayrische Staatsbibliothek Munich records match our collation. First edition of this extremely scarce and important book which contains the announcement of Scheele&#146;s discovery of oxygen, made independently of, and two years prior to, Priestley. Scheele&#146;s monumental discovery was made by 1773; he had begun his experiments on oxygen in 1770. The publication of this book was delayed due to the fact that Tobern Bergman was two years late in delivering his promised preface. The work is fittingly bound with Bergman&#146;s own lectures on the nature and application of chemistry, a rare work that is not included in his collected works Opuscula Physica et Chemica."The independent discovery of oxygen is here described and the composition of air by two gases is illustrated. One of these is necessary for combustion and respiration and it is absorbed by a number of solid substances and can be artificially produced; the second gas (nitrogen) prevents combustion. Scheele&#146;s &#145;fire-air&#146; (oxygen) could be produced from saltpetre, from black oxide of manganese, from oxide of mercury, etc. The photo-sensitive nature of chloride of silver was announced, a discovery that led to photography" (Dibner, Heralds of Science, 41). "Scheele (1742-1786) was an experimental genius; he made more discoveries of first-rate importance with fewer opportunities and scantier appliances than any one else, and his skill, insight and power of illuminating experimental results have never been surpassed, if indeed, they have ever been equaled" (Ferguson II.331).Bergman (1735-1784) was a member of the Swedish Academy and from 1767 professor of chemistry at Uppsala. He had a high regard for the younger Scheele and "did everything in his power to bring him to the notice of the scientific world. Bergman owed to him his transition from obscurity to a leading position in the world of science." (Partington, III, p. 208) His Essay on the General Usefulness of Chemistry and its Application to the Various Occasions of Life (thus the title of the English edition of 1783) gives "a general view [of] medical, oeconomical, and technical chemistry, halurgy, geurgy, theiurgy, salts, earths, inflammable substances, metals, waters and airs." (Partington III, p. 184) Bergman remained a follower of the phlogiston theory all his life.OCLC: Scheele: Burndy, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Cornell, Madison, NLM, Smithsonian, Stanford, UCLA, Yale. Bergmann: Cornell.* Scheele: DSB XII.143-50; Horblit 92; Partington III.205-34; Waller 11225; Gernsheim, Hist. of Photography (1969), pp. 32-33; not in Duveen, Ferguson, Young, or E.F. Smith collections.*Bergmann: Partington III, p. 184, F. Less

WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig.

Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co., London 1922 - Half title + TP + [5] = Note page + 7-189 + 1 blank leaf + 1-10 = Advertisements, Octavo. First Edition, Later Issue. Frongia/McGuiness "Tract." p. 42. With the almost never seen, RARE dust jacket - that is all but unknown in the trade. To our knowledge, only one other copy has been offered for sale in the dust jacket in the past 25 years (and another copy in dust jacket is alleged to be held by a Los Angeles collector). Between "The world is everything that is the case" and "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent," Wittgenstein expounds this monumental work which is usually accorded the honor of being "the most important book of twentieth-century philosophy". Printed in English with facing German texts, this is the first edition in book form of what first appeared in 1921 in the final number of Annalen der Naturphilosophie, the text here revised by the author and a translation made by Frank P. Ramsey under the editorship of C. K. Ogden. Bertrand Russell, Wittgenstein's one-time teacher, supplied the uncomprehending "Introduction". (Regarding the "Introduction", Wittgenstein wrote Russell on April 9, 1920: "There's so much of it that I'm not quite in agreement with - both where you're critical of me and also where you're simply trying to elucidate my point of view." [WA, p. 23]) Apart from one paper published in 1929 - which he considered weak and confused - the Tractatus was the only philosophical work that Wittgenstein published in his lifetime. With the ten page catalog at the end which, based on internal evidence, dates from late 1925. The book did not sell well (a second edition did not appear until 1933) and all copies were not bound at the time of publication. As more copies were called for, at some point in late 1925, a ten-page catalog was added to the volume. original dust . Dust badly chipped, torn, soiled and seemingly "glued" to the boards with spine darkened. Pencil ownership inscription (dated "March 1932") on front free endpaper. Some offsetting on the endpapers (from the dust ). Internally a nice, clean copy. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Less